GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 50, 27 August 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

<BNIIII> MIBS ASSOaATION.—COPTSiaST.) The International Finance Conference is to meet in Brussels on 24th Seutember. . ■ . . * The amateur golf championship was won .at Melbourne by Quirkj who defeated Apperly 5 lip and 4 to play, The pensions payments to Canadian war veterans for the year ended 31st August total twenty-five million dollars,. and increases beginning'or Ist September will mean an additional ten million dollars next year. Four United States Army aeroplanes have arrived at Nome, Alaska) from New York. The actual flying time was 55 hours. The aeroplanes will start back to New York in a few days. A big athletic meeting between teams representing the British Empire and America'"has been fixed for 4th September, at the Queen's Club. The athletes will be mainly those who competed at the Olympic Games. A message from Sydney announces the j death of the Hon. John Meagher, W.l/.C, of New South Wales, at the age of 84 years., A message from London states that the strike fevel' has attacked football players. The Salford Northern "Union, players are demanding double last season s votes. Senator Millen has been chosen to represent the Commonwealth at Geneva. The following itinerary for the British rifle team has been arranged by the'executive of the Commonwealth. Rifle Council\: —13th October, Brisbane; 22nd October, Sydney; 3rd November, Latmceston; Bth November, 'Melbourne, Empire match on 15th; 22nd November, Adelaide; 3rd December, Perth. . ■ Following widespread criticism of the New South Wales Government's propo'sal_to fill the . Murray vacancy, the suggestion is now made that Parliament should be consulted before definite action is taken. Parer and M'lntosh leave Sydiley for Melbourne to-day. At the Medical Congress in Brisbane, Professor Johnson, of Auckland, dealt with the influence of heredity in relation to offspring. He urged that stiefl knowledge should be utilised in an endeavour to improv the race. Tlie Opposition censure motion in the West Australia;.! House was defeated by 22 votes to 13. The Nationalists ail voted with tho Government. The British Air "Ministry is asking all c.x-officers of the Air Force, including two thousand Colonials, to forward their addresses, in order that their commissions ia»y be tent. 1